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Data Detectives: Dynamic Earth Unit 4 – Volcano Hazards Unit 4 Volcano Hazards In this unit, you will • Examine records of historical volcanoes. • Use the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) to categorize volcanoes. • Investigate the effects of major eruptions on climate. • Explore the effects of the most explosive volcanoes in history. Lyn Topinka, USGS Topinka, Lyn Mt. St. Helens viewed from the north, showing Spirit Lake and the new summit crater. The lateral blast from the May 18, 1980 eruption damaged or destroyed over four billion board feet of usable timber, enough to build 150,000 homes. 89 Data Detectives: Dynamic Earth Unit 4 – Volcano Hazards 90 Data Detectives: Dynamic Earth Unit 4 – Volcano Hazards Warm-up 4.1 The tragedy of Mont Pelée Location map After reading the account of the volcanic eruption that destroyed the town of St. Pierre on the island of Martinique in (pages – ), list and describe all of the volcano-related hazards discussed. Feel free to add other hazards from your previous knowledge or experience with volcanoes. Volcano hazards Atlantic Ocean . Lesser Antilles (see inset) . Caribbean Sea Pacifi c Ocean . Atlantic Ocean . Caribbean Sea Martinique . Volcano hazard examples (optional) If you have access to a computer, you can see examples of these and other volcanic hazards. Be sure to add any new hazards you find to your list. Launch ArcMap, and locate and open the ddde_unit_.mxd file. Refer to the tear-out Quick Reference Sheet located in the Introduction to this module for GIS definitions and instructions on how to perform tasks. The tragedy of Mont Pelée 91 Data Detectives: Dynamic Earth Unit 4 – Volcano Hazards In the Table of Contents, right-click the Geological Hazards data frame and choose Activate. Expand the Geological Hazards data frame. To see examples of other volcano hazards: Turn on the Hazard Links layer. Select the Hazard Links layer. Using the Hyperlink tool , click on each of the brown volcano hazard symbols (brown volcanoes) on the map. Read the caption for each picture, then close its window. There may be more than one picture for each link. Questions . In St. Pierre, which of the hazards you listed caused the greatest amount of damage and cost the most lives? . Do you think anything could have been done to reduce the loss of life and property in St. Pierre? Explain. What warning signs did the people of St. Pierre have of the coming eruption? Why do you think so many people ignored the signs? . Why do you think people build farms and cities so close to volcanoes? . Would you rebuild the city of St. Pierre? Explain why or why not. 92 The tragedy of Mont Pelée Data Detectives: Dynamic Earth Unit 4 – Volcano Hazards Eyewitness accounts Th e Destruction of St. Pierre, 1902 Volcanoes in the Caribbean water vapor and other gases in the magma tend to Th e islands of the Lesser Antilles are the surface build pressure until it is released explosively. Th is expression of a volcanic arc above a subduction type of eruption forms steep-sided cones called zone. For the past 40 million years, the Atlantic stratovolcanoes that can reach thousands of plate has been slowly plunging beneath the meters in elevation. Mt. Rainier (outside Seattle), Caribbean plate, building this chain of tropical Mt. Fuji (in Japan), Popocatépetl (towering over islands. Mexico City), and Mt. Etna (on the island of Sicily) are all stratovolcanoes, and all are located above subduction zones. Florida Gulf of Atlantic Ocean Th e tropical islands of the West Indies are a series Mexico of stratovolcanoes that occasionally erupt with spectacular violence. Th e fi rst recorded eruption in the West Indies occurred about 1660 on the island of Montserrat. Since that time, dozens of eruptions have been observed and activity Caribbean Sea Lesser continues with regularity today. Th e deadliest Martinique Antilles eruption of the 20th century occurred in the West Indies on the island of Martinique. Mt. Pelée and the island of Martinique Th e rock and sediment of the ocean fl oor contain signifi cant amounts of water. As the Atlantic plate Th e island of Martinique sits at the midpoint of carries these rocks downward into the mantle, the Lesser Antilles island arc. For several hundred the increasing heat and pressure releases the years the island had been a stopping point for trapped water. At a depth of about 100 km (60 pirates and buccaneers, but by the start of the 20th mi), this combination of heat, pressure, and water century it was home to over 160,000 residents. Th e vapor cause the subducting plate to melt. Th e largest city, the port of St. Pierre, was a thriving molten rock — magma — is much lighter than community of over 25,000. Spread out along a the surrounding mantle, so it rises toward the gently curving beach at the foot of cone-shaped surface. Near the surface, the magma accumulates Mont Pelée, it billed itself as the “Paris of the in reservoirs known as magma chambers. West Indies.” Famous for its rum, St. Pierre had a Occasionally, the pressure in the chamber distillery fi lled with barrels of the potent spirit. increases, forcing magma to the surface in a Mont Pelée, rising several miles to the north of St. volcanic eruption. Pierre, was draped in a thick cover of jungle. At its Th e shape and explosive nature of these volcanoes summit, a bowl-shaped crater held a lake, Lac des is a direct result of the magma’s chemical content. Palmistes. Below the summit was a second crater, At subduction zones, minerals with relatively breached by a V-shaped canyon aimed like a rifl e low melting points such as silica (quartz) melt, sight at St. Pierre, 6 km (3.8 mi) away. Th ough it whereas minerals with higher melting points was well known that Mont Pelée was a volcano, remain solid. Magmas high in silica are very having produced minor eruptions in 1792 and viscous; that is, they do not fl ow easily. Rather, the 1851, the 1300-m (4265-ft ) peak was assumed by The tragedy of Mont Pelée 93 Data Detectives: Dynamic Earth Unit 4 – Volcano Hazards most to be dormant and therefore harmless. In On May 5th the water in the crater lake was fact, it was considered by many to be the island’s heated to a boil and the crater rim failed. Th e benevolent “protector.” hot water rushed down the canyon towards St. Pierre, mixing with the recently fallen ash to Mt. Pelée awakens create a volcanic mudfl ow called a lahar. Th e lahar destroyed everything in its path, including the In late January 1902, Mont Pelée began to show premiere distillery where 23 workers were swept signs that it was awakening from its long slumber. away and killed. When the lahar reached the ocean Smoke and steam began to puff from the summit. it created a local tsunami that fl ooded low-lying For the people of St. Pierre, it was more a source of areas around the waterfront. wonder than alarm. Th is activity, called fumarole activity, gradually increased through the spring. Obviously, life in the shadow of Mont Pelée was Citizens occasionally noted the smell of sulfur, and becoming unbearable. People were trying to leave on many days the mountain’s summit was covered the island, but passage aboard ships was diffi cult with an ashen fog. to secure. Th e cathedral was crowded with people A. Lacroix waiting to make confessions. Seeking to comfort the populace, the governor sent a team to the summit to assess the danger. Only one scientist, the local high school science teacher, was in the group. Th e team delivered a positive report to the governor stating, “Th ere is nothing in the activity of Mt. Pelée that warrants a departure from St. Pierre,” and concluded that “the safety of St. Pierre is absolutely assured.” Unfortunately, the report was not accurate. On May 7th Pelée continued to be rocked with explosions, and people noted that two fi ery “eyes” A later cloud of hot gas and debris (nuée ardente) roars appeared near the summit. Above the summit down the side of Mont Pelée in June 1902, passing over hung a gray ash cloud fi lled with lightning. the already destroyed city of St. Pierre. Marino Leboff e, captain of the Italian merchant On April 23rd the townsfolk heard a loud ship Orsolina, knew what was coming. His home explosion, and the summit of Mont Pelée billowed port was Naples, which lies in the shadow of Mt. gray ash skyward in a minor eruption. Over the Vesuvius, a volcano that erupted with deadly next few days, there were numerous explosions force in A.D. 79, completely burying the cities of and tremors, and several times St. Pierre was Pompeii and Herculaneum. Leboff e ordered the dusted with fi ne volcanic ash. Conditions for the Orsolina to leave port only half loaded with cargo citizens of the town deteriorated; several times and noted, “I know nothing of Mont Pelée, but if clouds of sulfurous gases, smelling of rotten eggs, Vesuvius were looking the way your volcano looks permeated the city. Th e increasing activity of this day, I’d get out of Naples; and I’m going to get Mont Pelée caused the wildlife of the mountain out of here.” Th reatened with arrest for leaving to seek safer surroundings, while deadly snakes port without clearance papers, Leboff e replied, and swarms of insects invaded St. Pierre and “I’ll take my chance of arrest, but I won’t take any surrounding villages in search of food.
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